August 20, 1991

A 7-year-old boy was struck and killed and his cousin was injured when a car jumped a sidewalk in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn last night and pinned them against a window grate, the police said. More than 100 police officers, some in riot helmets, surrounded the accident scene as more than 250 neighborhood residents, mostly black teen-agers shouting "Jews! Jews! Jews!" jeered the driver of the car, a Hasidic man, and then turned their anger on the police.

As a dozen tanks rolled through Mayakovsky Square, kicking up a cloud of exhaust in the moist evening air, Alla Mikhailovna, in the capital for a visit with her 7-year-old son, stood on the sidewalk and cried. "It is horrible, just horrible," said the 43-year-old geologist from Tashkent, who identified herself with her given name and patronymic, in the Russian fashion, but declined to give her last name. "I am so sad for my country. What will come of this? Where will it end? War? It is just so frightening."

PROPOSALS to test all doctors for the AIDS virus and to ban them from certain procedures if they test positive have left many, particularly surgeons, feeling angry and betrayed. As a group, these doctors say, they face far greater risks from their patients than patients do from them. They contend it is unfair to demand that they be tested when it is against the law for them to require the same of patients. And if infection with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, will cost surgeons their profession, some worry that surgeonsbe reluctant to treat patients who carry the virus.

The Treasuries market scandal that has rocked Salomon Brothers Inc. widened yesterday as the Securities and Exchange Commission began requesting documents from dozens of other firms, people who have been briefed on the growing inquiry said. The commission is seeking evidence of possible widespread collusion, fraud and other illegal practices in the $2.2 trillion Treasuries market. The far-reaching requests began to go out over the weekend, providing the first indication that Government investigators suspect that illegal bidding practices of the sort disclosed at Salomon Brothers may have been more widespread than previously thought. All primary dealers, which are the institutions authorized to trade directly with the Federal Reserve, are being asked to provide documents in the inquiry, said the people who were briefed on the investigation. They spoke yesterday on condition that they not be identified.

New York State will more than double, and in some cases triple, the Medicaid fees paid to private doctors for AIDS-related services to encourage more of them to treat patients infected with the AIDS virus. The state is believed to be the first in the country to offer higher Medicaid reimbursements to primary care and specialty doctors for treating HIV-infected patients. The state already pays higher special rates for AIDS-related care by hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, home-care services and hospices.